The 2017–18 Liga Națională season is the 68th season of the Liga Națională, the highest professional basketball league in Romania. Sepsi SIC Sfântu Gheorghe is the defending champion.
| Liga Națională | |
|---|---|
| Games played | 114 |
| Teams | 10 |
| Regular season | |
| Relegated | Phoenix Galați |
| Finals | |
| Champions | Sepsi SIC (3rd title) |
| Runners-up | CSM Satu Mare |
| Third place | Olimpia Brașov |
| Fourth place | Universitatea Cluj |
← 2016–17 2018–19 → | |
Competition format
editThe Romanian Basketball Federation agreed a change in the competition format for the 2017–18 season:[1]
- 10 teams played the regular season, consisting in a double-legged round robin format.
- At the end of the regular season, teams are split into two groups, one of them composed by the first six teams and the other one by the rest. In this second stage all points of the regular season are counted and the teams will face each other from its group twice.
- All teams from the group from 1st to 6th and the two first qualified teams from the bottom group will join the playoffs. In this knockout stage, quarterfinals and semifinals will be played with a best-of-three-games format and the final with a best-of-five one.
Teams
editCSM Târgoviște and Politehnica Iași withdrew from the competition and enrolled in the Liga I.[2]
SCM Timișoara and CSU Alba Iulia were promoted from the previous season of the Liga I.[3][4]
Location of teams in 2017–18 Liga Națională
| Team | City | Arena | Capacity |
|---|---|---|---|
| BC Sirius | Târgu Mureș | Sala Sporturilor | 2,000
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| CSBT | Alexandria | Dimitrie Ghica | 900
|
| CSM | Satu Mare | Ecaterina Both Arena | 400
|
| CSU | Alba Iulia | Sala Sporturilor | 400
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| ICIM | Arad | Victoria Sports Hall | 1,500
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| Olimpia CSU | Brașov | D.P. Colibași | 1,700
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| Phoenix | Galați | Dunărea | 1,500
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| SCM | Timișoara | Constantin Jude | 2,200
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| Sepsi SIC | Sfântu Gheorghe | Arena Sepsi | 3,000
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| Universitatea | Cluj Napoca | Polyvalent Hall / Horia Demian | 7,308 / 2,525 |
Regular season
edit| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | Qualification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sepsi SIC | 20 | 19 | 1 | 1685 | 1229 | +456 | 39 | Qualification to Play-offs |
| 2 | CSM Satu Mare | 20 | 13 | 7 | 1518 | 1470 | +48 | 33 | |
| 3 | Olimpia Brașov | 20 | 11 | 9 | 1400 | 1423 | −23 | 31 | |
| 4 | Universitatea Cluj | 20 | 9 | 11 | 1458 | 1458 | 0 | 29 | |
| 5 | CSBT Alexandria | 20 | 9 | 11 | 1458 | 1476 | −18 | 29 | |
| 6 | ICIM Arad | 19 | 11 | 8 | 1347 | 1335 | +12 | 30 | Qualification to Play-offs |
| 7 | SCM Timișoara | 19 | 8 | 11 | 1362 | 1336 | +26 | 27 | |
| 8 | CSU Alba Iulia[a] | 19 | 7 | 12 | 1207 | 1321 | −114 | 25 | |
| 9 | BC Sirius | 19 | 1 | 18 | 1171 | 1558 | −387 | 20 | |
| 10 | Phoenix Galați[b] | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Withdrew |
Updated to match(es) played on 18 March 2018. Source: Romanian Basketball Federation
Notes:
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Play-offs
editThe higher seeded teams played games 1, 2 and 5 at home.
| Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final | |||||||||||||||||
| 2 CSM Satu Mare | 71 | 68 | 63 | ||||||||||||||||
| 7 SCM Timișoara | 82 | 50 | 53 | ||||||||||||||||
| 2 CSM Satu Mare | 101 | 72 | |||||||||||||||||
| 3 Olimpia Brașov | 60 | 68 | |||||||||||||||||
| 3 Olimpia Brașov | 73 | 74 | |||||||||||||||||
| 6 ICIM Arad | 66 | 66 | |||||||||||||||||
| 1 Sepsi SIC | 76 | 71 | 60 | 85 | |||||||||||||||
| 2 CSM Satu Mare | 46 | 51 | 68 | 76 | |||||||||||||||
| 1 Sepsi SIC | 96 | 93 | |||||||||||||||||
| 8 CSU Alba Iulia | 44 | 57 | |||||||||||||||||
| 1 Sepsi SIC | 97 | 87 | |||||||||||||||||
| 4 Universitatea Cluj | 69 | 59 | |||||||||||||||||
| 4 Universitatea Cluj | 72 | 78 | |||||||||||||||||
| 5 CSBT Alexandria | 71 | 75 | |||||||||||||||||
| Third place | |||||
| 3 Olimpia Brașov | 86 | 76 | |||
| 4 Universitatea Cluj | 70 | 72 | |||
References
edit- ^ "Tragere la sorti Liga Nationala de Baschet Feminin editia 2017–2018" (in Romanian). Romanian Basketball Federation. Archived from the original on 2017-09-25. Retrieved 25 September 2017.
- ^ CSM Târgoviste s-a retras din Liga Națională de Baschet feminin. totalbaschet.ro
- ^ SCM Timișoara a promovat în Liga Națională după un succes categoric cu Agronomia București. În elită a acces și Rapid București Archived 2017-09-11 at the Wayback Machine. tmsport.ro
- ^ CSU Alba Iulia revine în Liga Naţională de baschet feminin! Formaţia din Cetatea Marii Uniri profită de faptul că Agronomia şi Rapid Bucureşti nu s-au înscris în prima ligă!. ziarulunirea.ro
- ^ "După un "ianuarie negru", CSU Alba Iulia, sub presiune! Echipa din Cetatea Marii Uniri obligată să câștige tot în turneul 6-9". 13 February 2018. Retrieved 24 April 2018.
- ^ "Phoenix Galați s-a retras din Liga Națională de baschet feminin din considerente financiare". 2 November 2017. Archived from the original on 24 April 2018. Retrieved 24 April 2018.
External links
edit- Official site of the Romanian Basketball Federation
- Halfcourt.info (Romanian and English)
- Numaibaschet.ro (Romanian)
- Baschetromania.ro (Romanian)